> The attached testscript has a leading double byte space separator
> before the for loop closing "done" keyword. This fails with a syntax
> error while parsing.
>
> Is it a bug or is it expected behaviour?
>
> I've tried it with ksh93u+ and ksh93v- versions on a Solaris setup.
> bash and zsh also fails, hence I'm thinking it might not be a bug,
> but could someone please confirm this.
>
> Here's a sample output.
>
> root@S11_3_SRU:~# echo $LANG
> ja_JP.UTF-8
> root@S11_3_SRU:~# cat space.ksh
> #!/bin/ksh
> for i in 1 2
> do
> echo $i
> 　done # leading double byte space character
> root@S11_3_SRU:~# od -xc space.ksh
> 0000000 2321 2f62 696e 2f6b 7368 0a66 6f72 2069
> # ! / b i n / k s h \n f o r i
> 0000020 2069 6e20 3120 320a 646f 0a65 6368 6f20
> i n 1 2 \n d o \n e c h o
> 0000040 2469 0ae3 8080 646f 6e65 0a00
> $ i \n 343 200 200 d o n e \n
You should remove the (invisible) character 0343 (0xe3), before the two
spaces.
Philippe
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